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Saint Columba
(St. Columba or Saint Colum Cille)521 - 597
Irish missionary. Columba founded a monastery on the island of Iona in 563 in an attempt to convert the Picts. He is regarded as Scotland's second Patron Saint after Saint Andrew.
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